[Promotion] free desktop contests

[Thilo Pfennig]

2006/2/25, Martijn Klingens <klingens at kde.org>:

I am not so sure if GIMP can not be compete with Photoshop. Maybe not
in the professional environment where companies are EXPECTING
Photoshop documents - but on a very practical level. You do not have
to set the limits where Photoshop stands but make some general tasks.
I have not seen a real comparison that besides of the color management
makes real good points in the comparison. GIMP primarily should try to
solve 99% of the graphical tasks done around the world, we can compete
woth the 1% ultraprofessional tasks later. Do you think most users use
Photoshop to it's full extend? I think most people want to do "some
photo editing" and it does not really matter what application they use
(often because the photos are not that good anyway ;-) )

(Lets' not forget Cinepaint that is used by the film studios and has
32bit support which is more than photoshop has)

> And if Adobe doesn't release a Photoshop for the free Linux and BSD desktops
> soon they might not even need to.

I think people who are able to bux Photoshop will also be able to buy
a machine that runs Photoshop. And also it is possible to run
Photoshop via WINE. I also really do not see a big need for photoshop


> At the current pace of development I expect
> Krita to be quite close to Photoshop by the time the KDE 4 version comes out,...

Well that's not that far away if October 2006. If we talk about it now
we might be able to have an event like this 2007.

I may be wrong but I think sometimes it is also a good idea tom
compete even when you think you will loose. Anyway, I would like to
collect some more ideas about how those contests can be done. Somebody
can go back into the archive to grab the ideas we have now even if
those events will be deferred.

Thilo
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